No Answer for the IOC

We get letters all the time, mostly from cops, but many from citizens readers. And sometimes from someone who can see behind the curtains. This is one of those times.

The IOC is making visits to a number of sites around the city and one of the members asked the mayor and his staff a question that wasn't anticipated:

• ...for a city as large as Chicago, they feel that there are not enough engine companies, truck companies and ambulances as it is. How is the city is going to handle the Games with current staffing when approximately 1.5 million more people will swell Chicago's population. The mayor and his staff was taken off guard by this question and had no answers for the committee. They also asked about the number of police personnel...

Resources are stretched kind of thin at the moment. Regardless of what the mayor says, J-Fed says or the talking mouthpieces at City Halls say, we know what we're driving, we know what others are driving, we know what's in the trunk and we know the call volume. When 1500 hours rolls around, we're going into backlog and we aren't getting out until well past 1st watch starting times. No one thinks about the city and suburban population increasing by over 1.5 million for three weeks and the strain that's going to put on infrastructure, services and amenities.

Perhaps the IOC reads the blogs?